Ectype vs X - What's the difference?
ectype | x |
(philosophy) A copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype.
* 2001 , Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review , Issues 170-172,
* 2004 , Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (translator), The Crossing of the Visible ,
* 2008 , Ryan L. Showler, Archetypal and Ectypal Ideals in Kant's Practical Philosophy ,
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun ectype
is (philosophy) a copy; usually contrasted with the original, or archetype .As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.ectype
English
Noun
(en noun)page 30,
- If my account is correct, both archetypes and ectypes' are 'real' insofar as they are composed of ideas of sensation. But I draw a distinction that Johnson does not acknowledge, viz., a distinction between ontological and epistemic ' ectypes .
page 38,
- The painting traces itself from itself by suddenly appearing in these ectypes'. But the ' ectypes only mark the final accomplishment of this sudden appearance.
page 51,
- It is likely that little attention has been paid to the archetype/ectype relationship in Kant scholarship in the English speaking world partly as a result of inconsistent translations of the German terms “Urbild” and “Nachbild” that make it difficult to even notice the relationship.